they are universally painted as fat, thirty year old virgins living with their parents.
Same goes for the women.
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Mar 08, 2005 5:38:07 am PST #5144 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Allyson - Mar 08, 2005 5:40:45 am PST #5145 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Same goes for the women.
I have pics that prove otherwise. When I got onstage at W&H Annual Revue, I remember thinking, "dear god, my fandom is hot."
Dana - Mar 08, 2005 5:40:46 am PST #5146 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
At the most recent con I went to, there were two friends who had met each other picketing NBC when they canceled Trek for the first time. They've been friends for 40 years now. How freaking cool is that?
amych - Mar 08, 2005 5:42:47 am PST #5147 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
men might keep a low profile because they are universally painted as fat, thirty year old virgins living with their parents.
Nah -- they were painted that way long before there were a lot of women in fandom. Not to mention in fandoms that are still male-dominated -- think of the comics shop guy on the Simpsons.
Allyson - Mar 08, 2005 5:44:16 am PST #5148 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Teh Seth may turn that stereotype around.
victor infante - Mar 08, 2005 6:05:01 am PST #5149 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Teh Seth may turn that stereotype around.
Comics are cool again, but fandoms? I think you're talking a different beast, there. Still, demographics for these things are definitely changing, and I think "Buffy" crystallized a lot of that, so who knows?
And as for men writing fan fic, how come when ever this conversation comes up, the focus is immediately on sexual pairings. A few of us are male, married professionals who like to write episodic stories that don't focus on sex. (Although I admit I'm the guy whose stories have Oz/Justine and a Dawn/Xander in the year 2023.)
Dana - Mar 08, 2005 6:07:29 am PST #5150 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
how come when ever this conversation comes up, the focus is immediately on sexual pairings.
Because the amount of slash and het in fanfic outweighs the amount of gen, regardless of the gender, sexual orientation, or marital status of the author.
victor infante - Mar 08, 2005 6:11:35 am PST #5151 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Because the amount of slash and het in fanfic outweighs the amount of gen, regardless of the gender, sexual orientation, or marital status of the author.
Yeah, I can see that. I just like to tell stories, y'know? It's weird because, on the face of it, the stories I write are what I'd consider fairly mainstream--I try to keep to the basic constraints of what could appear on the TV--and yet sometimes it seems that what I do is an oddity among fan fic writers.
Dana - Mar 08, 2005 6:15:39 am PST #5152 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ah, the lament of the gen writer. I think it comes back down to that other eternal question of "but *why fanfic?", and for a lot of people, the answer is "So I can get what I don't see on my screen."
victor infante - Mar 08, 2005 6:18:45 am PST #5153 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
"So I can get what I don't see on my screen."
And by that, I mean "porn." (: